Keys On Your Keyboard

Now kids, one on one here today might be wondering what this video is about. This is basically for those of you who have never really taken the time to look around on your keyboard to see what there is. In some of my other videos, I might have pointed you towards this when I talk about tildes, or curly braces, or brackets, or hash signs, or anything like that. So I'll just be going over this with you right now.

Okay, so the first character, or the first letter or character, whatever you want to call it today, I'm going to be going over is the tick. It sort of looks like an apostrophe right there. Let's just make this bold; still can't really see it. It's probably just a little dot, basically. Let me show you what to press on your keyboard to get the tick to come out. Right here, on your Mac keyboard, this little button right under escape, that button—just pressing this key, not holding anything else—will type tick. That's what that little dot is.

Now the next thing is a tilde. It looks like a squiggly line. Now the way to get a tilde to come out is on your keyboard. You hold shift while pressing tick, and you can see there's the tilde right there. So you just hold shift while pressing the tick, and it will print out the tilde.

Another key is the hash. It looks like this; you might see this if you're logged into root in a terminal. The way to get to it—see it's right here on the 3—is holding shift while pressing 3.

Okay, and then there's the ampersand. It looks like this; it's like the "and" symbol. In order to get that, hold shift while pressing 7. You can see it right there.

Um, let's see… well, there are brackets. Okay, so we have brackets. This is the open bracket, and this is the closed bracket. Sort of like parentheses, except square: open bracket, click that, closed bracket, like that. So there's the closed bracket and the open bracket.

Okay, another thing are the curly braces. They look like this; this is the open curly brace, and this is the closed curly brace. Okay, so these are the curly braces, look sort of like braces, actually. You hold shift while pressing open bracket and closed bracket to do open curly brace and close curly brace. That's the curly braces right there on your keyboard.

Um, there is backslash. It just looks like a slash except it's backwards. Some of you, I say backslash, and you just die a slash, so you need to know what a backslash is. So backslash, you just press this key normally right under delete.

Another key that should be in another key that you should care about is the pipe. It looks like a little vertical bar; that's what it's also called. You can also call it a vertical bar. You just hold shift while pressing backslash. There's a vertical bar.

Let's think of what else. Of course, there is the @ symbol, but most of you already know this. You just hold shift while pressing 2, and it looks like little @ symbol.

I'll also show you greater than and less than because you might need those for something. So we have less than and we have greater than; looks sort of like arrows. To do this, for less than, hold shift while pressing comma, and for greater than, you'll hold shift while pressing period.

Of course, there's normal slash which is just clicking this; it looks like that. Yep, and then dollar sign—you probably already know this—shift for dollar sign, yeah. So that's pretty much all the keys up to other keys you're going to need to know about: parentheses, open and closed parentheses. So shift 9 is for open parenthesis, and shift 0 is for closed parenthesis. You can see right there; open parenthesis, closed parenthesis.

So yeah, it's pretty much it. So if you have any questions or characters I missed, please comment on this video; I'd be happy to answer them. Yeah, so I'll say goodbye.